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WEATHER - <U. a. Weather Bureau Porecaat.) ' 3^® OTlty CVCTling paper Pair and slightly warmer tonight: to- m Washington With the morrow fair and warmer; gentle winds. Associated Press ISewS Temperatures—Highest. 75, at noon yes- . terday: lowest. 66. at 7 am. today. service# Pull report on page 9. _Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 11,12,13_ Yesterday’s CircnUtion, 110,204 No. 32,980. po^office.'Washington."d.1*" WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1934—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. **»*_^ Aaaociaud Pr»«». TWO CENTS. LABATT RELEASED; RANSOM PAYMENT # Denial That Kidnapers Got Money Met With Story of $50,000 Exchange. NO CLUES DISCOVERED i JO LEAD TO ABDUCTORS Gangsters Believed to Have Got ten “Cold Feet’’ 4fter Holding Victim Several Days. By the Associated Press. TORONTO, August 17.—John S. Labatt, wealthy brewer, returned to his home in London, Ontario, today after 65 hours in the hands of kid napers. The $150,000 ransom the kidnapers demanded was not paid, for the ab ductors released their victim as the Canadian police, including the royal mounted, moved to get their men. Despite information that no ransom Was paid, it was authoritatively stated In Hamilton today that ‘ less than $50,000 was paid.” “Cold feet," commented an au thority, who disclosed that officials were determined to make an example of these first • snatch” gangsters in Canada’s history. Labatt was unharmed, but in a highly nervous state, which sent him to bed. Police surrounded his home, where he was reunited with his wife and children, and visitors were not admitted, but a friend said he had Hot been physically injured. The brewer suffers from a heart ailment. His family had suffered anguish in his absence, for they feared the strain of his experience Would kill him. Brother Had Ransom Money. His brother Hugh, who drew $150, 000 from a bank in an effort to meet the abductors' demands, had pleaded with police to be given the oppor tunity to pay and see his brother alive again. But the Canadian police, ringing his hotel in Toronto in a cordon of watchful men, had stood between the frantic family and the criminals. Labatt was taken from his auto mobile Tuesday morning as he drove from Sarnia to London. , Hugh was named as intermediary and came here to a hotel immediately. The kidnapers had said they would kill Labatt in 24 hours unless the ransom was paid. But police arrived at the hotel as soon as Hugh. Hour after hour the brother kept to his hotel room under the eyes of authorities. He was believed to have established three telephone contacts with the gang sters and yesterday he was reported to have gone to Windsor, across the border from Detroit, for a few hours. His trip gave rise to a report that the ransom had been paid. But Hugh did not know where his brother was. It was regarded as un likely that John, himself, knew, for his eyes were blindfolded, it was said, throughout his imprisonment. Returns in Taxicab. Shortly before dawn the abductors released him on the outskirts of Toronto. He hailed a passing taxicab and went at once to his brother’s hotel. This was accepted as an in dication that the kidnapers had told him where Hugh might be found. No money was paid for this infor mation, according to the best au thority. The first kidnapers in Canada failed to get a cent for their efforts. In Hugh's hotel suite, the brothers met again. It was the first intima tion Hugh had that his brother had escaped, only pausing a few minutes, they entered an automobile and rushed to the Labatt home in Lon don, 11Q miles away. It was not until the trip was com pleted that R. G. Ivey, a spokesman for the family, announced the 55 year-old man returned. His release ended terrible hours for Mrs. Labatt and their three children. Mrs. Labatt had been calm through out the ordeal, taking care of John, 6; Mary, 4, and Arthur, who only is 3 months old. Mrs. Labatt had not been well since the youngest child's birth and her physical condition added to the anx iety which the other members of the family felt. Inspector John Miller of the On tario provincial force went to London at once to join Inspector T. W. Cou sans Neither one gave out informa tion other than to indicate that police efforts were being redoubled. Indications were apparent that po lice efforts would be directed toward the following angles: Discovery of the exact point at ’ which Labatt was removed from his black sedan as he drove toward Lon don from his Sarina Beach Summer cottage. Identification of ‘'Three-Fingered Abe,” the gangster who signed the ransom note found in the car, and his partners in crime. Location of the hideaway at which Labatt was kept captive. Identification of strangers who (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) Marguerite Woolley Is Hinted As Playground Bureau Chief Prominent Woman Dem ocrat Slated to Succeed Sibyl Baker. Miss Marguerite Trenholm Woolley, recreational director ahd social work er, is slaved to succeed Miss Sibyl Baker soon as supervisor of the mu nicipal playground department, it was reliably reported today at the District Building. In the presidential campaign of 1928 Miss Woolley was executive sec retary to the College League sup porting Alfred E. Smith and worked with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt at national headquarters in New York. Final approval of Miss Woolley’s appointment has not been made by the Commissioners, but indications point to early action. Miss Woolley is the daughter of Robert W. Woolley of 3401 Prospect avenue, a former Washington news paper correspondent, who at one time was director of the mint and a mem ber of the Interstate Commerce Com mission. Later he became promi nently identified with the Wilson ad ministration and served as a member of the Democratic National Campaign Committee in 1916 and 1924. Woolley also attained national prominence as one of the directors of publicity for the Secretary of the (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) WIFE OFJfflNISTER Demand Money for Release of Evangelist Husband in North Carolina. By the Associated Press. GOLDSBORO. N. C„ August 17.— Mrs. R. H. Askew was reported today to have received a second communi cation from the presumed kidnapers of her husband. “Four-Square Gospel” Evangelist who has been missing since Tuesday. Federal agents assigned to the case by the Division of Investigation, De partment of Justice, and Sheriff Paul Garrison’s office veiled their investi gations and upon their instructions Mrs. Askew declined to answer any questions about the hunt for her missing, 28-year-old husband. Told to Get Money. Reports from reliable sources, how ever, said she received a telegram sent from Washington which said: “Have the money r*ady Saturday." Last Wednesday Mrs. Askew re ceived through the malls a typed note which told her: “Get (25,000 at once or you will never see your husband alive again. Instructions will follow.” It was mailed in Goldsboro and bore no signature. Two Federal agents were here working on the case. They explained their request that Mrs. Askew refuse any information about the case bv saying they feared something might be disclosed which would endanger the evangelist’s life. “First of all we want to get Askew safely home,” said one of the agents who declined to permit use of his name. Wife Bearing Up Well. Mrs. Askew, who is over 50 years old, was reported to be bearing up well under the strain of her husband's absence and the letter and telegram indicating he had been kidnaped. Women of her husband's congrega tion were constant visitors at the Axlrpvx’ 11 Hi#* hnmp h#*rp The youthful evangelist and his wife for the past three years have spent much of the time traveling over the continent conducting serv ices. They came to Goldsboro last October. Mr. Askew is a native of Onslow County. N. C., and his wife was sup erintendent of schools at Blowing Rock, N. C., prior to their marriage. She is a sister of Roby Greer, Demo cratic leader in Watauga Oounty and his county’s Representative in the 1933 State Legislature. STRATOSPHERE FLIGHT PLANNED BY BELGIAN Max Cosyns to Make Ascent Tomorrow to Study Cos mic Ray. By the Associated Press. BRUSSELS, August 17.—Max Co syns, Belgian scientist, plans to start a balloon ascension into the strato sphere at dawn tomorrow. Cosyns is a pioneer of the strato sphere. having made an ascent with Prof. Auguste Piccard. The ascent tomorrow’ is to take place on the sec ond anniversary of the Cosyns-Piccard flight. Another ascent into the stratosphere was planned by Cosyns to learn more about the cosmic ray. His balloon, assembled at the village of Hour-Havenne, is equipped with a stabilizing devise which Cosyns hopes will permit him to hold certain alti tudes. GEN. JOHNSON TO AID BARBER PROTESTING NEW JERSEY CODE Br the Associated Press. Hugh S. Johnson, recovery admin istrator, made plans today to confer Sunday with Gov. A. Harry Moore of New Jersey about the State's in dustrial codes after a plea from a Jersey City barber that he was being forced out of business. N. R. A. officials emphasized It was the State code and not the national code against which Richard TJlran, the barber, was protesting. President Roosevelt lifted all price requirements from the service trades, ^eluding barber shops under Federal codes several weeks ago. It was -the State code, under which Jacob Maged. Jersey City tailor, was haled into court a few months ago for cutting prices on pressing clothes. • Johnson has been planning for * i some time to confer with Gov. Moore in an effort to correlate the State and National industrial recovery codes. He has just received Ulran’s pro test that the code charge of 50 cents for hair cuts and 25 cents for shaves was destroying his business. “My business is falling off so rapidly that by next week I will have to close my door, and so I pray for your as sistance." Ulran said. Recently, in correspondence with Gov Moore. JoTinson said: “The N. R. A. now has reached the conclusion that if the maximum benefit is to be derived from both Federal and State recovery programs. State codes should be Identical in their provisions with Federal codes.” N. R. A. officials said that the New Jersey State code for barber shops continues price requirements. 4 r- ■■■••Mm—l. wm: MISS MARGUERITE WOOLLEY. —Bachrach Photo. sovmoTS’ Foreign Office Discounts Threats as Press Predicts Military Action. By the Associated Press. TOKKX August 17.—The Japanese government is “considering the pos sibility of sending a general warning” to Moscow as the next step in their gravely strained relationship, a for eign office spokesman said today. The spokesman said the possible warning would recount many frontier incidents. Including alleged Soviet plots and provocations. Settlement of past cases would be urged with assurances requested against repetitions. “But such a warning will not necessarily carry threats,” the official asserted. This spokesman denied the arrest of 17 Russian officials and employes of the Chinese Eastern Railway in Manchukuo this week or other trou bles there were connected with the deadlock in Japanese negotiations for purchase of the railway from the Soviet. "Manchukuo Affair.” The arrests, in which the Russians were charged with revolutionary plot ting against Manchukuo, “are purely Manchukuo's affair and Manchukuo is an independent state," said the of ficial. "Concerning the Chinese Eastern Railway negotiations, we consider them still in progress and not broken off.” Referring to Moscow dispatches charging that Japan is preparing for forcible seizure of the C. E. R., the spokesman asserted: “This is entirely an absurd canard. I can guarantee that Japan is preparing for no for cible action against the Soviet.’’ News that a warning to Moscow is being considered came after Jap anese newspapers published threats of military action against Russia be cause of the situation in Manchukuo. Incidents Frequent. Troublesome issues between Tokio and Moscow have been frequent since Japan took over Manchuria three years ago and created the “inde pendent state" of Manchukuo. Several Japanese newspapers pub lished anonymous statements, said to have emanated from the army propa ganda bureau, saying the army had “decided to adopt a stronger atti tude than before in the event of future Soviet provocations on the Russo-Manchukuo frontier.” The Tokio war office has published a list of 15 allegedly provocative inci dents on the Russo-Manchukuoan border since January 1, 1934. They included Soviet airplane fly ing over Manchukuo territory, alleged kidnapings of Manchukuo citizens and incidents of red troops crossing the border. The Soviet press has been charg ing that Japan, through the instru mentality of Manchukuo. has been carrying out systematic arrests and interference in the lives and work of Soviet citizens in Manchukuo in order to make the Russians relin quish their share of the railway. gulfIprosecution FAVORED BY ICKES Labor Board Had Recommended Action for Violation of Code. By the Associated Press. Secretary Ickes today approved a recommendation of the Petroleum Labor Policy Board that the Gulf Re finding Co. be prosecuted on charges of violating oil code labor provisions. The charges, Ickes said, grew out of a strike called by employes at the company’s Girard Point, Pa., plant late in June. Employes were dissatis fied with wages and working condi tions. The board told Ickes the company had won the strike, but in order to do so had resorted to a violation of the code. ‘‘Copies of the company’s pay rolls,” the report said, ’’indicate that after resuming operation on July 17 the company worked a substantial num ber of its employes throughout the period to July 31 hours far In excess of the maximum, established in the code.” The board told Ickes the firm had discharged all employes, Including many with long years of service, who had gone on strike and failed to accept the company’s request to go back to work, and replaced them with other worker* DROUGHT TORRES U. S. TO SURRENDER EXPORT MARKETS Loses Commanding Position Held in Wheat—Perma nent Loss Is Denied. RAINFALL IN MIDWEST TO HELP LATE CROPS Reaction Against A. A. A. Feared With Threat of Higher Food Prices. By the Associated Press. Ravages of the drought received new emphasis today when it became apparent that the United States will surrender all its wheat markets abroad in 1935. Department of Agriculture officials acknowledged that the exports of America, which have held a com manding position since 1890, will total zero next year. They were quick to add that the United States expects to reclaim its share of world marts when the situation returns to normal. Crop curtailment, put into effect before the drought, helped reduce the American farm supply, but officials say the drought would have hit the farmer much harder if it were not for the benefit payments resulting from the A. A. A. Other drought aspects: 1. One-sixth of all cattle in the country and 1 out of every 10 sheep will go into little tin cans to be passed out by the Government to the needy next Winter. Rain Helps Little. 2. Secretary Wallace’s sugestion of an ’’ever normal granary” seemed likely to emerge as one prime result of the farm rehabilitation drive. It would seek to equalize the supply over years of scarcity and abundance. 3. Rain, which almost reached cloudburst proportions in some parts of the Midwest yesterday, will benefit some later crops and renew some pastures, officials said. But on much of the land where the scourge of aridity hit hardest, plants are burned beyond redemption. 4. The effects of the disaster will reverberate into next Spring. Just now farmers are selling to the Gov ernment only cattle which face im mediate starvation. As Winter wears on. officials said, feed supplies will dwindle rapidly and the Government will have to go on buying for months. 5. Secretary Wallace geared his drought machine to the expectation that the chief problem is feeding ani mals, not people. The only incon venience human beings face, he in dicated, will be a shift in diet from scarce food to abundant ones. Some meats are expected to be relatively scarce. Wheat Advance Checked. 6. Prices rose yesterday in Chicago to a point at which packers costs were the highest since 1930. But new advances in grain virtually were can celled on reports the Government might move against speculation. When the world wheat situation re turns to normal, officials hope Amer ica can sell abroad about 125,000.000 bushels a year—somewhere between 10 and 20 per cent of the total yield. Some farm leaders fear the with drawal from world markets, which began last year, might result in much damage if the country encoun tered difficulty in getting back into the trade later. Government men assure them, however, that the world business goes to the lowest bidder, and that the United States can get back into the picture promptly when the time comes. Up to 1933 American wheat sales abroad ranged from 335,000,000 bushels In 1914 to a low of 71,000.000 (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) INSUtJSCHARGED TO SAAR PAPERS Germany Demands Ttedress for “Scurrility” in Note to Commission. By the Associated Press. BERLIN. August 17.—Charges of “outrageous scurrility” against a sec tion of the Saar region press, and demands for redress, are raised in a strongly worded note dispatched by the German government to the Saar Commission, it was revealed today. The note, dated August 14, com plained that certain newspapers which "habitually insult and vilify” Ger many and its leaders did not stop their campaign even when President i Paul von Hindenburg died and while his funeral was being held. “The government notes with ex treme surprise that the Saar Com mission has done nothing to end such unparalleled excesses, which violate international usage as well as the character of the Saar territory which is German, and whose inhabitants are German,” the note stated. “The German government therefore strongly protests against the com mission’s attitude and expects the necessary preventive measures against recurrence shall be taken forthwith.” As an example of the type of jour nalism against which complaint was made, a report said to have been pub lished by the Saar Bruecken Volks stimme was cited. The newspaper, after reporting the burial of Von Hindenburg, is said to have stated: “We will now dismiss Von Hinden burg as a representative of soulless barbarism and of Germany which turned Its back upon civilization." Huey Long’s War A series of stories inter preting the unusual political fight in the State, written by WESTBROOK PEGLER Begin in The Washington Star today on Page A-5. \ 2go«* HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN! Admr. Byrd Prepared to Die, Expecting Rescuers Too Late Antarctic Explorer Left Note, After 5 Months of Isolation, Telling Relief . Party of Last Letters and Addresses. Br the Associated Press. LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, August 17.—Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd prepared himself for a lonely death in the Antarctic, yet sent no appeal for aid. the outside world learned today—two months later. A message from the advance weather base where Byrd spent nearly five months in isolation told how he re signed himself to death and left a note for a relief party, which he feared would “arrive too late.” Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, head of the tractor expedition of three which fought its way to Byrd’s side, reported by radio that the commander became so ill In June from fumes from his stove he thought the end was near. “My observations here and remarks that Admiral Byrd has made,” said Dr. Poulter, “convinced me that he has gone through things, particularly during the first three weeks of June and the past two weeks, that must have been beyond human ability to withstand. “He was convinced he had reached the limit of his endurance. He was true to the polar code and played the man gallantly. “As I think back I see things In his messages that were put there to keep us from realizing his condition, fearing that the trip in an attempt to reach him would risk the lives of others. “Although he was up to meet us on our arrival, he should not have (Continued on Page 3, Column-!.)— * (MM3 Rally in Ninth and Tenth Innings to Capture Opener. BY JOHN B. KELLER. The Nationals defeated the Cleve land Indians in the opening game of today’s double-header at Griffith Sta dium. The game went 10 innings. The score was 4 to 3. FIRST INNING. CLEVELAND—Travis threw out Galatzer. Knickerbocker singled to left. Averill walked. Trosky drove into a double play, Myer to Cronin to Susko. No runs. WASHINGTON—Schulte singled to left. Seeds crossed to short center for Susko's high one. Manush filed to Galatzer. Trosky made a one hand stop of Cronin’s grounder and stepped on first for the out. No runs. SECOND INNING. CLEVELAND—Hale singled to left. Kamm also singled to left, sending Hale to third. Schulte came in fast for Seeds’ loft. Berg flied to Schulte and Hale scored. Hildebrand doubled to right center, scoring Kamm. Myer threw out Galatzer. Two runs. WASHINGTON—Seeds ran far to his right for a one-hand catch of Travis’ drive. Kamm got Myer s foul in front of the Cleveland dugout. Bolton singled to center, Harris fouled to Kamm. No runs. THIRD INNING. CLEVELAND — Cronin threw out Knickerbocker. Averill singled to right. Trosky walked. Hale popped to Susko. Kamm walked, filling the bases. Seeds forced Kamm, Myer to Cronin. XI ^ eim. WASHINGTO N—Knickerbocker threw out Whitehill. Schulte Hied to Averill. Hale went back lor Susko's high one. No runs. FOURTH INNING. CLEVELAND—Berg doubled to left. Whitehill took Hildebrand's bounce and Berg was run down, Whitehill to Myer to Cronin to Travis to Bolton. Hildebrand took second on the play. (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) Canada Covets U. S. Markets. NEW MARKET. Ontario. August 17 (AP).—Premier Mitchell P. Hepburn of Ontario last night urged the Dominion government take steps toward rec iprocity to open United States markets for Canadian products. He told a Liberal convention here the United States Government had declared there would be ' no trade , pacts negotiated with Canada “until there is a change of government in the Dominion.” Guide for Readers Page. Amusements . B-4 Comics .B-10 Features .B-9 Financial .A-ll-12-13 Lost and Found. A-9 Radio .A-10 Serial Story .B-14 Service Orders.A-6 Society.B-2 Sports .B-5-6-7-8 4 HIRER DEFENDS Seized Hindenburg’s Place to Thwart Foreign En emies, He Says. By the Associated Press. HAMBURG, Germany, August 17. —Chancellor Adolf Hitler told the German nation today that foreign hostility toward the Reich prompted him to seize quickly the presidential powers of the late Paul von Hinden burg. Hitler said he appropriated the au thority of President instantly, and added that his purpose in stepping into the place left vacant by Von Hindenburg was to forestall a national calamity. The address here, heard by the en tire nation, was Hitler’s first and only apeech before the plebiscite Sunday in which the German people will be asked to approve his joining the offices of chancellor and Reich President. \ “Otherwise we naturally would have chosen another way—first an appeal to the people and then a carrying out of the people's decision,” Hitler said. JAIL SENTENCE PLEASES - ■ -- 0 LOWELL, Mass., August 17 (jP).— Three colored men expressed their pleasure at receiving three-year sen tences for larceny in District Court today with broad grins. Two of them from Baltimore, Md„ and the other from Warrenton, Va., told police they would be perfectly willing to go to jail provided “that they could keep their glad rags,” stolen, police said, yesterday from a second-hand clothing store. Population, 497,000 Referring to population, The Star is read in 10,000 more homes in Washington and suburbs than five years ago, 15,000 more homes than seven years ago and 20,000 more homes than 10 years ago. The present circulation of The Star in mid-Summer Is over 110,000 daily and 120,000 Sunday. Yesterday’s Advertising Local Display. Lines. The Evening Star. 58,396 2d newspaper..,.., 22,964 3d newspaper.... 19,850 4th newspaper.. 10,167 5th newspaper .„ ... 7,124 Total Ne»?paper« 60,105 The best of all classes, rich and poor, read The Star In their homes in ever-increas ing numbers. __ ¥ OEATHJSPROBED Attractive Dayton Woman Found Drowned in Pool of Exclusive Club. By the Associated Press. DAYTON, Ohio, August 17.— County authorities disclosed today that Mrs. William H. Neil, socially prominent matron, was found dead' in the swimming pool of fashionable Northmoor Country Club shortly be fore midnight last night. The body was nude. Coroner Maurice Cooper’s autopsy revealed she had drowned. Mrs. Neil was 28 years old and unusually at tractive. The woman's husband, an insur ance company executive, told authori ties his wife was in the habit of wearing a diamond ring valued at about $2,000. It was not on Mrs. Neil's flnter when her body was found by Nightwatchman Louis Shy rifh. Sheriff Eugene Frick said Neil and his wife had been living apart for several years. Nell has been living In a downtown hotel, and he told the officer he was unable to state with whom his wife had been last night, If any one. Cooper declined to discuss a theory of foul play. He said the clothing of the woman had been found in a neatly piled heap at the edge of the pool, and an empty glass was found nearby. Shyrigh said he had made his usual rounds at the pool at 9:30 p.m. He said no one was in the pool. The watchman made the discovery on his second round of the grounds at mid night. and notified A. Z. Funic, club manager. Funk claimed the body and noti fied authorities. He said Mrs. Nell was not a member of the club. Early inquiry failed to disclose her move ments on last evening. LOW PRICES HOLD IN D. C. GAS WAR Local Motorists Benefit From Re dactions, With More Cuts Considered. Washington and nearby Maryland and Virginia motorists continued to day to reap the harvest of a battle between Independent and chain dis tributors bf gasoline. There were no additional cuts In price since yesterday, but further re ductions are considered by both sides. Meanwhile, the National Petroleum Board is watching with interest for any violations of the petroleum code and, it was learned, is prepared to take a hand in case either side over laps the restrictions placed by the Recovery Administration. Standard gasoline continued to be sold at 12 cents, including the Dis trict and Federal tax, by the larger companies. The Independent dealers posted prices of 10, 11 and 12 cents for the same grade fuel. High-test gasoline and the superior grades were were marketed for 15 cents, including tax. Because of the code requirement that new prices must be posted 24 hours before the change, it was ap parent early today that the inde pendent dealers will make no further reductions before tomorrow. The larger companies, however, may offer a new quotation late today. Shortly before noon no decision had been reached. ROOSEVELT ALONE CAN AVERT STRIKE. SAYS UNION CHIEF McMahon, Renamed Textile Leader, States Walkout Is Assured. 500.000 DUE TO STOP ' WORK ON SEPTEMBER 1 2.000 Employes Quit in Georgia. Bus Driver Injured in Chicago. By the Associated Press. Thomas F. McMahon was re elected president of the United Tex tile Workers of America today, and immediately declared that only action by the President can avert a general strike of half a million workers in the cotton textile industry. Orders fixing the walkout by Sep tember 1 were given by the conven tion of the textile workers to its executive council yesterday. The union claims a membership of 300.000. Charging discrimination. 2.000 tex tile workers struck in Columbus, Oa. Other thousands are out in Alabama. Bus Driver Injured. A bus driver was hurt early today in what Chicago police listed as the Arst violence of the union bus drivers’ strike. No word was forthcoming about Federal efforts to settle the alum inum industry strike, centering at Pittsburgh, Pa, but from the same city came defiance of the National Steel Labor Board. John H. Meek, counsel lor the West Virginia Rail way Co., said the firm would resist with ‘ every legal means” the board’s uiuci iui mi cuipiujc rirtuuu. The Labor Relations Board ordered an employe election among Minne apolis' truck drivers, hoping determi nation of representation would help settlement of their strike. Kohler Plan Rejected. Sharp words flew between Walter J. Kohler, former Governor of Wis consin, and union leaders after the latter had rejected as a ‘‘stinging In sult” Kohler’s plan to end the strike in the plumbing factory which bears his name. Kohler hinted of a court fight. A Federal mediator went to St. Louis in an effort to settle a wage controversy and prevent a strike of 2,500 employes of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad. Crafts unions in Great Falls, Mont., accepted terms for settlement of their strike and unions in Butte and Ana conda were to vote on them today. Four thousand striking salmon fishermen and tannery workers went back to work along the Columbia River after a wage compromise. McMAHON SAYS STRIKE CERTAIN. Re-eleeted Textile Leader Saya Only Roosevelt Can Stop It. NEW YORK. August 17 (JP).~ Thomas F. McMahon, re-elected to day as president of the United Textile Workers of America, declared that only President Roosevelt could avert a general strike In the cotton textile industry. Union conservatives had re-elected McMahon and the move first was interpreted by Francis J. Gorman, unanimously re-elected first vice president, as meaning that there might not be a general strike. McMahon said: •'President Roosevelt Is the only person in God’s green world who can stop the general strike.” He said that under the mandate of the convention issued yesterday there was no doubt of the strike be ing called unless the President “forces the leaders of the textile industry to sit down at the conference table with (.Continued on Page 2, Column MOTHER IDENTIFIES BRIDGE LEAP VICTIM Woman Who Drowned After Jump From Span Was Mrs. Frances Allen. The body of a young woman, which had lain unidentified at the District Morgue since she Jumped to her death in the Anacostia River early Wednes day morning, was identified this morning as that of Mrs. Frances Al len, 31, of 613 Elliott street northeast. Bernard J. McCoy, morgue master, said the identification was made by the woman's mother, Mrs. Ruth Till Pidgeon of 456 M street southwest. McCoy said Mrs. Pidgeon stated her daughter had been ill for some time and recently had been extremely de pressed. Hundreds of people had called at the morgue seeking to identify Mrs. Allen since she Jumped from the Ben nings Bridge on Wednesday morning. Her first effort to jump was blocked by two workmen who seized her as she stood on the rail and pulled her back onto the bridge. A few seconds later she leaped from another section of the bridge, and was seen struggling to keep afloat in the swift current after she struck the water. She drowned before boats sent out from shore could reach her. SAFECRACKERS’ VANISHING ACT PUZZLES OFFICIALS AT LORTON CVd’ Maybe a fellow prisoner in the bar ber shop at Lorton rubbed vanishing cream on Curtis P. Weaver, who up until yesterday afternoon was serving two years for housebreaking and larceny. At any rate, when Weaver disap peared he didn’t leave the sort of tracks a bloodhound can sniff, nor was his going apparent to the guards in the watchtowers which flank the reformatory reservation. One minute the guards saw Weaver working in the prisons barber shop and the next they couldn't see him at a ~~ni aH. Col. William L. Peake, superin tendent. ordered out the bloodhounds. Weaver had been at Lorton only a few months. At the time of his ar fest police recovered a varied assort ment of cracksmen’s tools said to have been employed by Weaver and at least one other companion, now under ar* ' rest, in a series of safebreakings. Detectives said Weaver would be a hard man to hold if he proved as clever at breaking prison as he waa at breaking safes. They added that not a tingle “neat'* job hat bees pulled since Weaver went away. 9